Nordic Horror Series: Book 5: Children of the Midnight Sun

A.R.S. Horkka

Original title: Valkean yön lapset

Author: A.R.S. Horkka

Published: 2023

Publisher: Tammi

Genre: Young Adult (13 or 14+)

Pages: 200

Part of a series: Nordic Horror series

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series synopsis

A remote island. The mystery of murdered children. A nightmare in the middle of the most beautiful midsummer.

  • Nordic Horror: When the days are short, the nightmares are long - YA horror with a Nordic twist!

Book #5 Children of the Midnight Sun is a standalone title in the Nordic Horror Series.

16-year-old Dia is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother on a remote island, where a dark secret is revealed.

Dia is returning from her violin lesson when a menacing group of youths begin to follow her. Dia can escape them with the help of magic she learned as a child and the youth get lost in the forest. However, Dia is soon accused of drugging them. As punishment, she is sent to live with her grandmother on a remote island she fears. Dia is forced to confront her old fears and ends up in danger while solving the mystery of murdered children from decades ago.

The Nordic Horror series is a new horror series from the Nordics, where down-to-earth realism, northern darkness and cold, mystery, murder and mythology are woven together into a nightmarish drapery in the darkest corners of welfare society.

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FINLAND: Tammi (orig.)

About author

A.R.S. Horkka

A.R.S. Horkka is a very private person and feels unwelcomed in social situations. This author doesn't give interviews, refusing to step into the public spotlight. Horkka is a human being without a face, skin color, or gender. Part of the Nordic Horror series lure and 'lore' is that its author is just a "story," among other stories.

A.R.S. Horkka is also a pseudonym for wife-and-husband author-illustrator duo Riina and Sami Kaarla and author Anders Vacklin. They are Team Horkka, and this team is on fire. Because - Season 2 is coming!
The authors are already planning seven new Nordic Horror novels.

Riina and Sami Kaarla have worked for over a decade as an author-illustrator duo. They have written and illustrated dozens of internationally sold Moomin books based on characters created by Tove Jansson. Their latest children’s novel series, “Pet Agents” has also been an international success. Its rights are now sold to seven countries.

Anders Vacklin is a prize-winning screenwriter, dramaturge, script doctor, creative writing teacher, and author of several non-fiction books on scriptwriting. He has written stage plays, musicals, and even a Virtual Reality game. Anders has also co-authored a YA novel-trilogy based on a script for a short film, a success at PAGE, BlueCat, and ScreenCraft screenwriting competitions.

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